Dilbert on usability

Posted Thu, 07/02/2009 - 15:57 by jnoyes

The future of Drupal

Posted Sun, 06/07/2009 - 21:13 by jnoyes



The future of Drupal

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The First Six Steps Of Getting Your Design Shop Noticed

Posted Wed, 06/03/2009 - 20:44 by jnoyes

Let’s play a little make believe. Let’s say you just started a new design studio. Your job is to promote the company and get it noticed online, and today is the day to get started. But where do you start?

Here's a quick set of steps to get your startup noticed.
Step One: Submit To Directories

Since inbound links increase google rankings, and since it can often take a while for directories to index your site, do this NOW. Here’s how you get started:

1. Google- Yep, good ole’ google. To add your site to google go to: http://www.google.com/addurl/

D7UX brainstorming in London

Posted Tue, 04/28/2009 - 09:25 by jnoyes

Jason, Dries and I recently returned from a D7UX brainstorming session in London with Mark Boulton, Leisa Reichelt and Roy Scholten.  The goal of our meeting was to further outline known issues, further progress on the d7UX designs, and leverage the combined Drupal knowledge of Roy, Dries and myself to poke holes in the existing design concepts posted on d7ux.org.  We covered a lot of ground, from installing modules, managing users, adding editing and finding content, real-time editing and even covered a bit of themeing.  It was a mind-melting two days, but we made a lot of progress.

Accessing data outside of drupal using views

Posted Sat, 03/14/2009 - 10:57 by jnoyes

This is pretty cool. The folks at Development seed created a module called Extendr, that allows you to build views using external queries - in this case flickr. Check it out:

http://s3.amazonaws.com/video.devseed/extendr.mov

Will Drupal replace HTML editors?

Posted Mon, 03/09/2009 - 15:50 by jnoyes

Now this is something I did not expect, but I suppose it has some merit. Kurt Cagle at OReilly is suggesting editors like Dreamweaver are being "eaten" by Drupal. Wow. Have we reached the point in time where IDE's and CMS's become one product?

How to use Acquia Search & Apache Solr

Posted Wed, 03/04/2009 - 15:16 by jnoyes

This is the second half of a screencast series on Acquia Search. In the first screencast, I demonstrated how to enable the appropriate modules. In this screencast, I show you how to configure and use Acquia Search and Apache Solr.

How to Enable Acquia Search and Apache Solr

Posted Wed, 03/04/2009 - 15:13 by jnoyes

Learn how to get up and running with Acquia Search and Solr.

How to integrate maps into your website

Posted Tue, 03/03/2009 - 07:59 by jnoyes

I'm a big fan of the work Development Seed puts out. Recently they released Nice Maps. Nice Maps is a Drupal module that allows you to use an external mapping feed, and overlay the map with other useful data unrelated to the map itself. I've yet to try this out, but plan to soon. Here's a nice short screencast highlighting how to use it.

http://s3.amazonaws.com/video.devseed/nice-map.mp4